Adventure Force Strike Force Review

The Adventure Force Spectrum is a well-revered member of the Adventure Force Family, with great motorized performance in an affordable package. It’s also six years old, making it long overdue to be phased out. Luckily, its replacement is even better.

The Adventure Force Strike Force (how often do we want to say “Force”?) is possibly the best off-the-shelf 8+ blaster for the price right now. The performance is outstanding, the handling is superb, and there are features for regular customers and hobbyists alike. If you don’t buy one, you’re doing something wrong.

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Super Serious. Kinda.

The Strike Force is a motorized, semiautomatic blaster, requiring 6 AA batteries (not included). It includes a 12-dart magazine, enough darts to fill the mag, an adjustable buffer tube stock with an NStrike attachment point, sights, and a removable front grip. Technically, the front iron sight is removable as well, even if it’s not advertised as such! So if you want to use your own sights or front grip, you’re free to use the available Picatinny rails.

The Strike Force is comfortable in hand, and easy to operate. It uses the typical rev trigger/firing trigger setup, with a magazine release you can easily depress with your thumb while pulling out the magazine. If, for some reason, you have a jam (I have yet to make one happen), there’s a jam door on the left side of the blaster.

When you pull the rev trigger to start the flywheels, the blaster gets somewhat loud – it’s more powerful than I would have expected for 6 AA batteries. More on that in the next section. But I can confidently say you that stealth isn’t the objective here with this blaster.

The blaster looks cool, fully embracing a semi-serious aesthetic, complete with greebles everywhere, while maintaining a bright color scheme. Serious thought was even put into details like the flywheel motor cover, which is molded to look like it’s physically latched down. The designers had lots of fun with this blaster, and the love shows.

Performance

On fresh batteries and the included waffle darts, I averaged 107fps. That’s insane! Additionally, while it might take a second for the motors to spin up to full speed, even fast shots were hitting in the 70s-80s. When bogging down motors still puts you on par with standard Nerf dart speeds, that’s saying something.

On that note, you can easily pop off four darts per second. So if you need to spam a few shots, you’re more than able to do that while chasing down an opponent.

The blaster is perfect for Humans v Zombies. Just make sure to grab more darts and magazines!

But Wait, There’s More!

Now for the hobbyist side of things! Inside the blaster, the setup is largely what you’d expect from a semiauto blaster. However, like in the Dart Zone Max Vector Pro, there are places for installing switches and a motorized gearbox for conversion to full-auto, and a gear is even included in the back of the blaster! It turns out that there’s a space hiding in the top rail assembly, large enough to use a Worker Nightingale Full Auto Kit.

Just as interesting is the inclusion of a pusher extension, like Dart Zone did with the Primus. Installing that bit changes the blaster into a short-dart only blaster, using the appropriate magazine adapter. I reused one screw from the blaster shell to hold it in place (I imagine the intention is using the screw that holds down the gear…but I haven’t made it that far yet. Performance with half darts was ~10fps less, but upper 90s is still more than usable for both regular games and HvZ.

Someone has already found out that the cage mounting is the same as that on the Vector Pro, and that there’s enough room to hide the cage and BCAR. Is it necessary? No. But it’s still cool!

Last Thoughts

Even if you’re not planning on any modifications at all, the Strike Force is about as perfect as a blaster can get. High performance, easy to use, and looking good the entire time. And at $20, it’s an absolute steal.